The Booker Prize for Fiction is an annual prize open to any novel originally written in English and published in the UK, regardless of the nationality of the author.
The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, when authors had to be from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It became the Man Booker Prize in 2002. The Man Group generously sponsored the prize for 18 successful years.
In June 2019, the prize had a new sponsor, Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman. Both are keen readers of fiction and are fully committed to the work of the Booker Prize Foundation and to the prizes. The prize went back to being called The Booker Prize at the same time.
Past winners include:
- V S Naipaul
- Iris Murdoch
- William Golding
- Salman Rushdie
- Peter Carey
- Arundhati Roy
- Ian McEwan
- John Banville
- Hilary Mantel.
Further information about the prize can be found on the website for The Booker Prizes.